Benjamin Cain
1 min readMay 29, 2022

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So faith for you is a reconciliation with something that's beyond our knowledge and control. If nature as the wilderness is that object of faith, you'd be looking for a more Taoist solution.

I aim to describe rather than to wholly defend what looks to me like the modern Western, Promethean/Faustian solution which is to existentially rebel against the wilderness, by creating an artificial, humanized alternative world, a self-serving artificial refuge from nature.

I see little reconciliation or faith in the beyond in that "progressive" response. Our faith, rather, is the humanistic kind: we trust mainly in ourselves, not in nature. More precisely, we trust in nature's capacity to be domesticated or enslaved by us, as I argue in the article linked below.

I also aim to avoid jargon that overcomplicates matters. These issues are difficult enough as it is.

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/why-you-should-be-haunted-by-natures-physicality-4d52310d0817?sk=e1407bef36888713f080746a51b4c7ba

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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